phpBB vs YaBB
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
phpBB · YaBB · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
3
0
Open Page Rank 8+
31
0
Open Page Rank 7+
102
0
Open Page Rank 6+
167
0
Open Page Rank 5+
271
0
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
phpBB · YaBB · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,695
9
Germany
1,698
4
France
1,342
1
United Kingdom
1,183
3
Poland
1,120
0
Russia
1,070
2
Spain
883
1
Italy
870
0
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | phpBB | YaBB |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.1 s | 1.4 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 12 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 900 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.